Chemistry, biosynthesis and biology of floral volatiles: roles in pollination and other functions

S Dötterl, J Gershenzon - Natural Product Reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2023 Floral volatiles are a chemically diverse group of plant metabolites
that serve multiple functions. Their composition is shaped by environmental, ecological and …

'Hidden'terpenoids in plants: their biosynthesis, localization and ecological roles

K Yazaki, G Arimura, T Ohnishi - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Terpenoids are the largest group of plant specialized (secondary) metabolites. These
naturally occurring chemical compounds are highly diverse in chemical structure. Although …

Research advances in allelopathy of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of plants

Y Xie, L Tian, X Han, Y Yang - Horticulturae, 2021 - mdpi.com
Allelopathy is an ecological phenomenon in which organisms interfere with each other. As a
management strategy in agricultural systems, allelopathy can be mainly used to control …

Working towards a holistic view on flower traits—how floral scents mediate plant–animal interactions in concert with other floral characters

RR Junker, AL Parachnowitsch - Journal of the Indian Institute of …, 2015 - journal.iisc.ac.in
Flowers are complex structures, synchronously displaying both olfactory and visual
signals/cues in the context of a particular floral morphology, that also vary in resource …

Extreme diversification of floral volatiles within and among species of Lithophragma (Saxifragaceae)

M Friberg, C Schwind… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how complex traits of multiple
functions have diversified and codiversified across interacting lineages and geographic …

Floral scents of a deceptive plant are hyperdiverse and under population-specific phenotypic selection

E Gfrerer, D Laina, M Gibernau, R Fuchs… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Floral scent is a key mediator in plant-pollinator interactions. However, little is known to what
extent intraspecific scent variation is shaped by phenotypic selection, with no information yet …

Conflicting selection on floral scent emission in the orchid Gymnadenia conopsea

E Chapurlat, J Ågren, J Anderson, M Friberg… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Floral scent is a crucial trait for pollinator attraction. Yet only a handful of studies have
estimated selection on scent in natural populations and no study has quantified the relative …

Indole: an evolutionarily conserved influencer of behavior across kingdoms

JK Tomberlin, TL Crippen, G Wu, AS Griffin… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Indole is a key environmental cue that is used by many organisms. Based on its
biochemistry, we suggest indole is used so universally, and by such different organisms …

Intraspecific variation of scent and its impact on pollinators' preferences

M Vega-Polanco, L Solís-Montero, JC Rojas… - AoB Plants, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Floral scents shape plant–pollinator interactions. Although populations of the same species
can vary in their floral scent, little is known about how this variation affects pollinator …

Diel pattern of floral scent emission matches the relative importance of diurnal and nocturnal pollinators in populations of Gymnadenia conopsea

E Chapurlat, J Anderson, J Ågren, M Friberg… - Annals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Floral scent is considered an integral component of
pollination syndromes, and its composition and timing of emission are thus expected to …